Over-exploitation of the world’s fish resources has caused serious decline in fish populations, and the Nereus Program has been developed to address these issues through Simulations, Capacity building and Public Awareness.
Daniel Dunn and Dr. Andre Boustany, Nereus fellows at Duke University, also an article in Fish and Fisheries on empirical move-on rules to inform fishing strategies.
Dr. Yoshitaka Ota, Co-Director of Nereus, and Dr. Quentin Hanich published a new article in the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law addressing the conservation burden.
NF Nereus Senior Research Fellow at Princeton, Dr. Ryan Rykaczewski is appointed as Assistant Professor, Marine Science Program and Biological Sciences at University of South Carolina. Ryan will continue to collaborate with Nereus program as our first Nereus Alumni.
James Watson gave a talk entitled, "Flow, Fish and Fishing: an analysis of the link between physics, ecology and human behavior in marine systems", at McGill Unversity this past September.
The 10th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity requested a series of regional workshops to facilitate the description of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs). The Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab (MGEL) of Duke University has been supporting the EBSA process both through its work with the Global Ocean...
